'October 2009-chattering and on the run, our toddlers are such fun'

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Right ladies, off we trot into the next stage of our gorgeous toddlers lives.

HC
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Hey all! well most of you saw from FB that we're having a girl very exciting but strange. Not sunk in at all. We're thinking of names but I've still not got my head around the idea of having a girl. A girl?!! Names are a lot harder - there's too much choice. I found it easier with William as there were so many to rule out!

We move William to a big bed next Friday. Am scared and nervous but I struggle to pick him up now. Has anyone made the move yet?

calypso CONGRATULATIONS!!!! how are you feeling? Sunk in yet?? Any mpre BFPs? it's Tuesday today and I'm at home so can't meet up! I'm looking after a snotty coughy child :( he's also thrown the biggest tantrum ever - poor thing was hysterical as I wouldn't leave at 7am to buy a digger

HC sorry to hear about your GM, how is she?

fidelma sounds like you had an amazing time!! Really lovely.

HT how's the arm? I hope you're managing to follow the docs advice

littlepea, saw your FB updates re G - I hope he's ok as sounds horrible :(

Wow iggly, that is wonderful news isn't it? Enjoy the next few weeks.

littlepea-am still in shock over Gabe. So glad you are home.

My grandma is ok at the moment but asking to see my girls so will go next week. At the Beach Hut all week and so far quite cool and windy but hoping for better weather soon.

Love to all.

HC
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HC enjoy the beach hut.My gran doesn't want to see the childrenI am off to see her on my own today.I don't know if she will see the dc again as she is off to London in 2 weeks to live with my dad.(She is sadly an anoying old woman,infact she wasn't any better when she was young!)

Littlepea I was also shocked about Gab. How is he now?

Iggly excited for your news,your house will turn pink over night,Enjoy

Calypso you are quite,are you around?

scout how is everything with you?

HT glad you had a good holiday.

Twinkle how is the house?

Connor has a MASSIVE TANTRUM this morning at least 20mins.
He also did 3 poos on the potty yesterday so I have his nappy off today but I am not too hopefull.I will give it a go.

Very upset about Norway

All wees on the potty bar one
poo outside lol

Calypso Please can we start shouting CONGRATULATIONS and getting excited for you?!

littlepea Hope Gabe is continuing to improve, I can't tell you how relieved I was when you posted those pics of him in the cot. Must have been so scary.

HC Enjoy your time at the beach hut

Iggly Many congratulations to you both! Is W aware of what is going on yet? A friend of ours is due her second very soon and we met her is Asda the other week, Joe kept touching her tummy, fascinated saying baba!

fidelma Your holiday sounds idlylic and very busy. Glad you had a great time, the show the dolphins put on for you sounds amazing.

We had a great short break at Haven with my mum, she realy bonded with Joe. I was unprepared for how ill she looked, it really shocked me and I had to hide away and have a bit of a cry at one point. She had radioactive iodine a few months ago for overactive thyroid and it killed the thyroid but then made it underactive. A mix up at he doctors mean that noone contacted her to tell her her levels were dangerously low and she had a few funny turns before a scheduled hospital appt picked it up. All hell broke loose then, the consultant was roaring down the phone at gp. She is on thryoxine now and slowly improving, there was a huge difference by day 3 of the holiday.

Dh and I finally got a night out - our first in almost 2 years, then we sneaked out again when we go back to Wales and went to the cinema! My extended family laid on a big tea for us before we went and Joseph was tearing round the place chasing the cat-got his head stuck in the cat flap then proceeded to throw potatoes all over he kitchen. Elderly relatives were just cooing over him!

Am getting a bit stressed about the baptism which is a few weeks away. dh adamant that he doesn' want his sister and brother in law to be godparents. She still makes no effort with us and has taken to organising extended family get togethers which we are not invited to. Family members have cooled towards me somewhat. Makes me feel a bit rubbish to be honest and sorry for dh and Joe-its not their fault the family doesn't like me. I will most definaely get the blame for the godparents thing though. I wish we could up sticks and move far, far away...

Apologies for typos-am trying to make an elaborate chicken curry thing in between typing. Talking of cooking-Joseph is going through a VERY fussy eating stage and is being very testing. Any tips to stop me tearing my hair out? He has taken to refusing anything for lunch and I'm worried he's losing weight

Morning! A quick one as supposed to be leaving for work!

littlepea that must be really tough on DS1, I hope that the school have good support for his needs?
I haven't been on FB in ages, sounds like something awful going on with Gabe, hope all is well now? X

iggly Yay, girls are fabulous, and have to confess that I'm hoping to have another although I'm not really fussed :)
Sorry to hear that W is ill, had a billion things on on Tuesday as it was so we'll make it another time, perhaps in October when I'm not full time again? Will you be on mat leave by then (due date?) X

fidelma shame your GM doesn't want to see your DC, sounds sad (and a bit rude?) She's coming to live here in London, is she from here?

HC have fun on the beach, and WHERE is our summer weather :(

HT Hope your mum gets better quickly and bummer about the family dynamics, sounds v stressful. Hope you enjoy the baptism. no tips for fussy eating, just seems to come and go, but don't get too stressed, he won't starve :)

And thanks all for congrats, still no symptoms at 6wks, working like crazy to get the stupid thesis into some kind of reasonable shape, 6 weeks and 4 days to go until submission!

Big kisses to you all X

bIG pOOOOOOOOOOO ON THE STAIRS omg!

Potty training going pretty well.Looking forward to no more nappies (11 years is a long time) lol

Going well.Only one miss today

I have a slightly dodgy tummy and feel a little sick.Reminds me that I never ever want to be pregnant again. LOL

HT I dont have anything for you Faith isnt eating either! I think its mostly to do with her throat, but a bit of fussy eating in there too. She is doing nothing but drinking, hardly any eating, she has also lost weight. Nothing is working.

Calypso you are so lucky not having any sickness, hope it stays that way! Dont push yourself to hard!!

Fidelma well done on the potty training! I dont know how Im going to master it! Not looking forward to it lol....

Iggly how are you feeling?? Thought anymore about girls names? We found it more difficult thinking up the girls names.

HC are you still at the beach???

Gabe is alot better, thank you for all the well wishes. It has got to be one of the most scary moments we have been through.

Will be back on later....the kids are all getting up at once! lol xxx

Only one dish of food thrown on the floor today, great. Zen....

fidelma The potty training sounds like it is going well. I laughed out loud at your post about the poo on the stairs! Have given up on potty training at the moment in favour of food issues and moving to a toddler bed.

Calypso How are you feeling, has it sunk in? Hope thesis is going well

littlepea Sending sympathy from one fussy eating camp to the other! The only lunch Joe will now eat is cheese on toast, corned beef hash at a push. Nothing else. I want words with Annabel bloody Karmel and her failsafe fussy eater recipies-most end up on the floor!

Joe has suddenly shot up in height a bit. Some neighbours noticed it when we got back from holiday and then Joe decided to deminstrate how he could now hook his leg over the spare cot near our bed, lever himself up and jump onto our mattress. Great Time for a big bed methinks. I had to buy new extra tall stairgates at the weekend because he can now climb over them as well.

Big wave to everyone else x

Hi all

Gulp at potty training, not going to attempt that until Matthew is nearly 3. Good luck though.

Had our week at the seaside then went away to the Heckington Show in the caravan. The inlaws went in their motorhome so was a challenge.......

DH has gone out on his motorbike so constantly checking if he has returned but will hear him first.

Hope all Ok.

HC
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HT Joe sounds so like my DS1!! When we moved to Canada he was 22 months. The bedrooms where downstairs, his room opened up onto the stairs, which had the front door at the top. The houses over there are terrible, you cant put up stairgates and there are no locks on the insides of the door (army houses). So DS1 was jumping out of his cot, up the stairs and out the front door! Wee monster!! LOL...we ended up puting him in a single bed, and putting it in the walk-in wardobe in our bedroom!! I promise the door wasnt closed into the wardobe lol....it was so we knew when he got out plus the walk-in was huge!! I have just bought the recipe book for fussy eaters.....oh dear lol

Hi all hope you are enjoying the summer.The weather is lovely up here.The children are doing lots of sport (trying to exhaust them.they just get fitter lol)

The potty training has gone well.We have about 1 wee accident a day,the rest goes in the potty or on the toilet.Poos always take longer but it looks like he has now got the hang of it.He is dry after his naps and was dry this morning so happy days.It has taken effort on my part and will continue to for a while but we are both really chuffed

Off to feed hens,collect eggs and water the veggies and maybe a wee nap

I've had a lovely couple of days with Joe, dh has had to go into work early each day so is just been us making mischief together! Yesterday we played trains all morning, then after lunch the heavens opened and we stood on the doorstep catching raindrops and singing incy wincy spider. Once it calmed down a little, we donned waterproofs and spent ages splashing in puddles. Quickly nipped into town on the bus(minus buggy), only for Joe to drag me to the train station-I didn't realise he knew the way! Poor genteel elderly ladies, there they were on the train o Liverpool, happily chatting about their bargains from Windsmoor and Hotter shoes when Joe appears in the gap in the seats. First he tapped one on the shoulder, hid and leapt out shouting "Hiding boo!" Minute later it was train, Tree, DOUBLE BUS when he saw a double decker. He went lovely and quiet then did a huge trump, held his nose and shouted "mummy poo!" Cheeky monkey!

Today we've been here. A bit hit and miss-Joe is mad for trains bu they don't tell you until you've paid that children aren't allowed on the grass. Of course, all he children wanted to ge close to the trains so all the parents spent the whole time trying to stop them. We stopped at a park where he could run about and he started playing with this little boys ball. They played together for ages while I chatted to the dad-officially the first Everton supporter I've spoken to at length! Lovely, lovely Scousers, so friendly.

littlepea Wow, how did you manage with your ds1! You must have been up and down the stairs all the time! They do sound alike though, don't they? Ah well, never a dull moment...Hope you have beter luck with Annabel Karmel than me, although hew loves her grandma's fish pie thing

fidelma Well done! You are now our potty training guru

Scout haven't heard from you for ages, how are you and Seb?

waves to everyone else

HT sounds and looks like a couple of great days. They are such fun at the moment. Enjoy

Sounds like you had a great time HT. Can't believe how many words Joe knows Matthew only knows Mamma, Dadda and no.

Wet here today so going to do some packing then take the girls for their swimming lessons.

Big wave!

HC
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Wet wet and Wetter

DD1 off for a swimming trial with Stirling.OMG she is like a fish!

Sunny sunny sunny

Off out for dinner

I'll keep this thread going lol!

:) thanks Fidelma!

I'm supposed to working on The Unmentionable so just stopping in very quickly to say:
fidelma Great potty training!
HT Joe sounds such fun and glad you had fun with the trains - sort of (Annalise kept running about all over the grass chasing the ducks which was a huge no no at the wetland centre, they just don't do rules :o
HC welcome back from your hols
Iggly hope you're feeling better and pg going well
littlepea your DS1 sounds very cheeky, hope all your three are well
scout thinking of you!

Think thats everyone, back to the boring thesis then :(
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Such fantastic news Calypso how are you ?

Morning all

Fed up of being awake all night, must be stressing over my hols next Sunday. Will get packed today to relieve some of the pressure methinks.

Hope everyone has a good day. One of my friends has a son who is 18 today and she is younger than me. When Matthew is 18 I will be 58!

Big wave!

HC
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